Show old myth telling of animals theft hefton of fire its ils myth goes back forets for ats beginnings to a time when there were jo ao p ople in the world animals and trees talked and walked about just as men do now but the there reNere Were galling monopolies even eved in days pine trees had aalthe all the ire there ewas was the animals stood it as beit they c could until one long cold winter when they almost froze to death Th enthey then they called a council and planned to tb steal fire from the lie pines word came cam e of a council 91 of pine trees on the hanks banks of the grende ronde river where they had built a great ire to warm themselves so a heaver beaver swampier swa swam moier oer there and hid under ander the hank bank where the guards could not not see him after a long time a live coal caal left the ire and rolled down the hank bank wh where re it t was can caught it by the beaver who hid it la in his breast then there was a merry chase the beaver ran very fust fast dodging this way and that pine trees nearly caught him finally the larger and older trees grew tired and stopped on the ibe river banks where they are so thick that even now it Is to find a way through them but a fw few pine trees more agile than the rest kept on and finally when the beaver was hard pressed he swam swain across the river and gave fire to the wll willows lovs and the birches that Is why alte can be got from these thes woods by rubbing sticks together exchange |